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Volunteering and civil service
To serve others is part of my core values. I worked six months full time as a civil servant at "ATD Fourth World" in an underprivileged neighborhood near Paris in 2021.
I also was very fortunate to be an activity leader at a holiday camp in 2017 with intellectually disabled young people, living with the guests and helping them through their daily activities, from playing games to eating and showering.
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Sports
I'm clearly not the best at sports. However, I've always loved tennis, and I play about 6 hours a week.
In addition, I had the opportunity to learn Taekwondoo in Korea during five years, and albeit having forgot almost everything, it has been a precious experience.
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Internships
At 15, I interned at Observatoire de Paris, once directed by the Cassini family and later by Arago. I met with
researchers and aerospace engineers working on satellites; I took pictures of the surface of the Sun. This exciting experience confirmed my love for space.
Separately, I interned at a French startup which is the European pioneer of buyback, refurbishment and sales of second hand smartphones. I enjoyed the startup environment, and was thrilled to learn and contribute to sustainable technology development.
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Economics and Business
I'm fond of economics, and I've read several books; I've learnt the basics from the excellent Principles of Economics by Mankiw. I also read many economic newspapers on a daily basis.
On top of that, I'm part of a joint Polytechnique-HEC Paris consultancy junior entreprise, partenered with McKinsey. We do several missions a year, often for large and well-established companies.
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Debating and public sepaking
Debating is one of my greatest passions, and I took part to countless debating contests. I reached semi-finals in a French national contest with several hundreds participants organized by the Fédération Francophone de Débat,
and won an "Award of Excellence" at Harvard Model Congress Europe in 2018. I also took acting classes for several yars while in middle and high school. This year, I'm taking part to a MUN congress with my university.
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History and ancient languages
I'm really passionate about history and especially antiquity (it probably stems from my Italian heritage). I studied both Latin and Ancient Greek in midddle and high school, and was part of the three students selected by my high school
to participate to the "Concours Général", a prestigious french national contest.
Ecole Polytechnique is the n°1 Science and Engineering university in France, alma mater of Becquerel, Lagrange, Poisson, Poincaré, Carnot, Navier, Mandelbrot and Jean Tirole among others.
